Flat Top Manor

Museum

Blowing Rock, NC

Flat Top Manor combines a 1901 20-room mansion with Southern Highland Craft Guild crafts and seasonal demonstrations at Blue Ridge Parkway milepost 294.

  • Visitors interested in Gilded Age architecture and mountain history
  • Shoppers seeking handmade crafts from regional Appalachian artists
  • Travelers wanting estate trails alongside a historic house visit

IW Carpenter, Jr Herbarium

Museum

Boone, NC

I.W. Carpenter, Jr. Herbarium maintains approximately 29,000 specimens and focuses research on the flora of the Southern Appalachians.

  • Southern Appalachian plant research
  • examining preserved botanical specimens
  • voucher specimen preservation

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